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[helenl]

ah but DWC is a culture unto its own. In my own observations some of the HD students literally have a "I'm a Dubai Women's College student and you're not worth my spit" attitude not only to teachers but also to their fellow HCT students.

I've heard students express the first half of that statement and imply the second in conversation with teachers and other students. Unfortunately, their inflated sense of self worth rarely was matched by their ability to empathize with their peers or their seeming worldliness.

I remember one student angrily asking a visiting European University of Rome professor if the professor thought that the rulers in the Emirates would allow an environmentally damaging construction project to proceed without having addressed these environmental issues - "besides, everyone wants a home that is on the sea and there is nothing under the water anyways..." singularly embarrassing.

However, there are also students who are thoughtful and open to researching and deciding such issues on their own merits. But they are usually not the more vocal insecure ones who feel the need to bulldoze their way over whomever they see as a naysayer. But that's the way of the world - here in the Emirates though, the students know that if they can get word to the "right person" that wasta still has an important impact on how things happen here in this part of the world.

[globalnomad2]

Spot on, Helen.

[veiledsentiments]

Helen has truly nailed it. DWC has been a world onto itself for many years now - already obvious back in the early 90s. Of course it has always been dangerous to generalize about Gulf students or Emirati students or even HCT students.

There are many variations on the theme...

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[D. Merit]

I 've never noticed a correlation between 'hours worked' and 'tendency to brown nose' at HCT.

If there is a relationship between the two I think it may be one of inverse proportionality.